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The problem was mostly in the cities though. I remember I returned from my parents where I had stayed over the weekend and it was okay - to a city that was still glowing from the h…

> Today I read The Washington Post and Fox News every day, to compare what they're saying. I (a German) do the exact same thing! I don't even find Fox News stories particularly egr…

EDIT: Oh I get it. Should have responded AFTER the morning espresso.

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> the government is funneling an ever-greater percentage of revenue from productive pursuits to pensions That is too simplistic for me. Income for one also is income for somebody e…

With a demographic that is the inverse of the "voter turnout by age" graphic though [0]. [0] http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics

> which would be a huge business model change, Is it? Since Adobe switched to the subscription model and the "Adobe Creative Cloud" I'd say they would be quite happy if that infras…

I prefer the (open source) videospeed Chrome extension [0]. It gives me a much wider range (thus far I used up to 5 x speed; audio is blanked above 3 x speedup), 0.1 increments - a…

Obviously the example code is inside another function - `await` can only be used inside a function marked with `async`, which always returns a promise. That means error handling ma…

You make sure the material is "boring" so that you can concentrate on what the talk is really about: The people in front of you. They change every time, sometimes radically (compos…

Without knowing anything about the CIA specifically but about big organizations incl. government ones: I suspect 99% of the employees have jobs comparable to what you see in the da…

Indeed. Fortunately there is a filter-list [0] for my ad blocker with the sole purpose of blocking these EU cookie warnings :-) [0] List homepage: http://prebake.eu/

Here is why the startup I write code for wants an app first and browser code second. We actually would prefer the browser by leaps and bounds, cutting the need for central servers …

I think so too. In our recent conflicts when you were caught you might get shot, the ancients used torture-killing so cruel I can't even read about it without feeling sick. Not eve…

And everybody takes inspiration for everything from somebody else and it can all be traced back to ancient Babylon, Greece and Rome. Yes we get it, nothing is an original idea. Tho…

> Even if the book is fine There is the crux of your... argument. How about you read the book and then come back? You sure have a lot to say about something you never looked at. Yo…

> Yes, he did. It was specific. It was specific about the authors , but the question was about specifics of the book. Still not one bit of information about the book in sight in th…

> I've tried to learn some quantum physics for fun, and it seems to me that most textbooks have surprisingly little description of the actual physical experiments behind the physic…

They do? Just check the version: Open Defender, go to Help => About, check "Engine Version". Should be 1.1.13704.0 or higher.

> Businesses hate instability. Which ones? How many billions of GDP are created by arms manufacturers directly and indirectly, add to this the vast part of the economy supplying an…

No, that question is unsettled. If you know better, you might want to give an answer here: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/14337/q-about-conseq...

> the number of true facts LOL Anyway - once again you did NOT respond to what OP wrote. What you did has a name: Whataboutism. Care to say something about what OP actually wrote? …

No, his point is that if you are lying they have an instrument to use against you. Similar to how they got Al Capone, where they didn't have to go through the trouble of having to …